In this 1997 interview, Ed Yong asked Ig Nobel Prize winner Chris McManus about “The fall and rise of lefties in Victorian England“. McManus was awarded the 2003 Ig Nobel Prize for medicine, for his excruciatingly balanced report, “Scrotal Asymmetry in Man and in Ancient Sculpture.” [PUBLISHED IN: Nature, vol. 259, February 5, 1976, p. 426.]
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Victorian body parts, in London, in September
The Victorian Body Parts conference happens at Barts Pathology Museum, West Smithfield, London, on September 14. To book a place, use the Victorian Body Parts booking form. “The conference is being organised by Beatrice Bazell and Emma Curry, both in their 2nd year of PhD research at Birkbeck, working on representations of body parts in Victorian culture.)” The day […]
A clever new claim that we are less intelligent
Yet another claim, from smart people who want to instruct us about intelligence, that we (if not they) have probably become less intelligent than many of those who preceded us: “Were the Victorians cleverer than us? The decline in general intelligence estimated from a meta-analysis of the slowing of simple reaction time,” Michael A. Woodley, […]